Assessing worldwide trends of underweight and obesity – Authors' reply

[...]BMI can distinguish people with higher versus lower amounts of abdominal adiposity with moderate to high accuracy. BMI and waist-to-height ratio were also similarly predictive of hypertension status.1 Together with the fact that weight is easier to measure than waist circumference in population...

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Published inThe Lancet (British edition) Vol. 404; no. 10463; p. 1644
Main Authors Ezzati, Majid, Zhou, Bin, Bennett, James E, Phelps, Nowell H
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 26.10.2024
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Adipose tissue
Body weight
Hypertension
Nutrition
Obesity
Primary care
Public health
Risk factors
Trends
Underweight
France
Asia
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Summary:[...]BMI can distinguish people with higher versus lower amounts of abdominal adiposity with moderate to high accuracy. BMI and waist-to-height ratio were also similarly predictive of hypertension status.1 Together with the fact that weight is easier to measure than waist circumference in population health surveys and primary-care facilities, this makes BMI an appropriate metric for risk screening and monitoring changes in obesity in primary care and in public health surveillance. [...]the projections by both WHO and the World Obesity Federation were based on older NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC) results using data only up to 2016, and hence do not reflect the more recent declines seen in data from France since the mid-2010s.2 Regarding the inclusion of both underweight and obesity indicated by Andrea Bombak and Natalie Riediger, there is overwhelming evidence, cited throughout our paper,5 that both underweight and obesity adversely affect health and wellbeing.
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ISSN:0140-6736
1474-547X
1474-547X
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(24)02099-3